Wait, years of Hollywood movies have taught me that if I commit any number of crimes, if I simply make it across the border into Mexico I'm completely safe. Is this article trying to suggest that Hollywood lied to me?!?

Bhruic:Wait, years of Hollywood movies have taught me that if I commit any number of crimes, if I simply make it across the border into Mexico I'm completely safe. Is this article trying to suggest that Hollywood lied to me?!?

Hollywood has not lied. In this case, the Mexican equalivant of the FBI worked with our FBI to bring him back. Turns out he was doing not such great things in Mexico either, and they really didn't want him to continue to be a part of the problem.

I'm sure this happens all the time in gangs, why is this guy so important?

He shot a business associate who couldn't afford to pay him back after cops seized a load of cash. Now the next guy who is hauling $600,000 and gets pulled over for a dirty license plate is going to be thinking, "I can let them take my money and get killed, or I can blow them away and maybe escape."

seancakes:His rap sheet actually seems kind of short for being in the top ten.

Why do we even care about this guy? Definitely doesn't belong on a national top 10 list. He killed a few people he knew over drugs and money. A scumbag, for sure, but not a threat to society in general.

Has our society sunk so low now that we don't even enough decent criminals to field an interesting FBI Top 10 Most Wanted list? Yeesh.

dwade:seancakes: His rap sheet actually seems kind of short for being in the top ten.

I was thinking the same thing. Are the streets so safe a body count of 3 gets you on the top 10 list?

I think it's probably more the kidnap, rape, and murder followed by fleeing the country than the two gang bangers.

As for the top 10 spot, that happened in 1998. Since then, the FBI has taken in a LOT of people. Arrests made, cases closed. Eventually, the tough nuts float up to the top 10 and stay there till they're cracked. I'd bet the whole top 10 is really just backlog. In the rare event something like Aurora happens, the shooter WOULD be bumped up to number one if he ran instead of just chillaxing at the scene of the crime.

Krieghund:cman: I wonder how long it will take the FBI to replace him on the list. They dont automatically disappear from the list if they are caught/killed, someone bumps them off.

The FBI seems to like to keep a couple of "captured" tags on their so it looks like they're doing something. I'm a little surprised OBL isn't still on there.

It takes a few months for them to nominate usually (sometimes they throw a quick guy on there if something is ongoing, like the dude a few months back). They ask for nominations from all their field offices. Then they have certain criteria and they choose one based on that (i.e. public recognition will help capture the person, threat to the public).

sage37:seancakes: His rap sheet actually seems kind of short for being in the top ten.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

I hadn't ever looked at the top 10 - I had expected a lot of high-level gang members, but most of them are just assholes.

Yeah, I've looked at that before and was always amazed. For a long time, the top two were bin Laden and Whitey Bulger, both mass murderers. The rest committed horrible crimes, but nothing remotely in the same territory. I always expected serial killers, cartel leaders, or terrorists.